Re: Empty crontab
On 10.03.07 14:57, Andrei Popescu wrote: From 'man crontab' Each user can have their own crontab, and though these are files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs, they are not intended to be edited directly. No mention about /etc/crontab. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIU you are safe to edit it. try: apropos crontab man 5 crontab -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Empty crontab
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: I see tasks from directories /etc/cron.* are ran regulary, but when I run crontab -e as root, the file is empty. Where are these tasks schedualed? I am asking because I want to know at what time of the day are tasks from cron.daily ran and how to change it. If I am not mistaken crontab -e edits root's crontab, however, according to me, you are looking for /etc/crontab, aren't you ? -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Empty crontab
Franck Joncourt wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: I see tasks from directories /etc/cron.* are ran regulary, but when I run crontab -e as root, the file is empty. Where are these tasks schedualed? I am asking because I want to know at what time of the day are tasks from cron.daily ran and how to change it. If I am not mistaken crontab -e edits root's crontab, however, according to me, you are looking for /etc/crontab, aren't you ? I thaught root's crontab is /etc/crontab. Thanks. Which command then to run to edit this file (sometime ago I read it is not recommended to edit it directly)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Empty crontab
I see tasks from directories /etc/cron.* are ran regulary, but when I run crontab -e as root, the file is empty. Where are these tasks schedualed? I am asking because I want to know at what time of the day are tasks from cron.daily ran and how to change it. If I am not mistaken crontab -e edits root's crontab, however, according to me, you are looking for /etc/crontab, aren't you ? I thaught root's crontab is /etc/crontab. Thanks. Which command then to run to edit this file (sometime ago I read it is not recommended to edit it directly)? You can edit it with any editor. If I remember well, this restriction exists on other systems but Debian is not concerned. -- Cédric Lucantis
Re: Empty crontab
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: Franck Joncourt wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: I see tasks from directories /etc/cron.* are ran regulary, but when I run crontab -e as root, the file is empty. Where are these tasks schedualed? I am asking because I want to know at what time of the day are tasks from cron.daily ran and how to change it. If I am not mistaken crontab -e edits root's crontab, however, according to me, you are looking for /etc/crontab, aren't you ? I thaught root's crontab is /etc/crontab. Thanks. Which command then to run to edit this file (sometime ago I read it is not recommended to edit it directly)? Looking at /etc/crontab you can see when cron.hourly and its friends start. I think if you want to add some tasks for the root user, you can add them to /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly ... according to your needs. I would do this way. -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Empty crontab
Marko Randjelovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not mistaken crontab -e edits root's crontab, however, according to me, you are looking for /etc/crontab, aren't you ? I thaught root's crontab is /etc/crontab. Thanks. Which command then to run to edit this file (sometime ago I read it is not recommended to edit it directly)? From 'man crontab' Each user can have their own crontab, and though these are files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs, they are not intended to be edited directly. No mention about /etc/crontab. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIU you are safe to edit it. HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
Re: Empty crontab
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:57:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: Marko Randjelovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not mistaken crontab -e edits root's crontab, however, according to me, you are looking for /etc/crontab, aren't you ? I thaught root's crontab is /etc/crontab. Thanks. Which command then to run to edit this file (sometime ago I read it is not recommended to edit it directly)? From 'man crontab' Each user can have their own crontab, and though these are files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs, they are not intended to be edited directly. No mention about /etc/crontab. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIU you are safe to edit it. From 'man /etc/crontab' : # /etc/crontab: system‐wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don’t have to run the ‘crontab’ # command to install the new version when you edit this file # and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields, # that none of the other crontabs do. It seems you can do it ! -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
